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Some Effects of Gamma Radiation on the Reproductive Potential of the Codling Moth, Carpocapsa pomonella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Olethreutidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

M. D. Proverbs  and
J. R. Newton
M. D. Proverbs
Affiliation:
Research Station, Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture, Summerland, British Columbia
J. R. Newton
Affiliation:
Research Station, Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture, Summerland, British Columbia
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This is the third paper in a series dealing with investigations, initiated in 1956, to determine if the codling moth, Carpocapsa pomonella (L.), might be eradicated in the Okanagan and Similkameen Vallevs of British Columbia by the release of sexually sterile moths. In the first twoe papers exposure to heat (Proverbs and Newton, 1962) and to gamma radiation (Proverbs and Newton, 1962a) were examined as methods of inducing sexual sterility. Heat was not satisfactory. However, exposure of fully developed pupae to 40,000 rads of gamma radiation induced almost complete sexual sterility (used in the broad sense) in the male moth without causing undesirable side effects. The female was more easily sterilized than the male.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 94 , Issue 11 , November 1962 , pp. 1162 - 1170
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1962

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